Synonyms for porous
ˈpɔr əs, ˈpoʊr-por·ous

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1. porousadjective

   Synonyms:
   permeable

2. porousadjective

   Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.

   Synonyms:
   permeable

3. porousadjective

   (Of legislation) full of loopholes

   Synonyms:
   permeable

4. porousadjective

   With many gaps.

   Synonyms:
   permeable

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. porous

   Synonyms:
   foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolable

   Antonyms:
   impervious, impermeable, impercolable

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1. porousadjective

   able to absorb fluids

   "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

   Antonyms:
   nonporous, impermeable, tight

2. porous, poriferousadjective

   full of pores or vessels or holes

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

   Antonyms:
   impermeable, nonporous, tight

3. holey, porousadjective

   allowing passage in and out

   "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

   Synonyms:
   poriferous, holey

   Antonyms:
   nonporous, tight, impermeable

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1. porousadjective

   Synonyms:
   permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable

   Antonyms:
   imporous, compact

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1. List of paraphrases for "porous":

   permeable, pore, leaky

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1. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   Turkey must do more to control its often-porous border, saudi Arabia and the Gulf states joined the air campaign in the early days, but have since been pre-occupied by the conflict in Yemen.

2. Steven Corwin:

   Yes, they are too porous. They don't work.

3. James Mwanga:

   This border is very porous, you will not know who has passed if the person went through the unofficial border posts, in most cases. Now there is anxiety and so on. We have heightened our alertness.

4. Elzbieta Karska:

   Sophisticated travel networks operate to take recruits across the porous borders, and sometimes through areas where trafficking in people and illicit goods may not be effectively controlled, testimony has documented that the routes taken entail travel through Libya, then Turkey and its border at Antakya, and then Syria.

5. Defense Ashton Carter:

   Turkey is a longtime friend of ours. It's a NATO ally. We're strongly in support of it. We stand with it in terms of defense of its own territory, but the reality is it shares a big border with Iraq and Syria, which border has been porous to foreign fighters going in both directions and I think the Turks could do more.